The Bee Gees made their own version of Sgt. Pepper. Then there was that weird collection of Beatles covers called All This And WWII. Booker T. & The M.G.s covered Abbey Road and who can forget Tiffany's version of "I Saw Him Standing There".
Now, it's ILX's turn.
Beginning on June 1, the 35th anniversary of the release of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, we'll start accepting claims for an ILX compilation of Beatles covers tentatively titled ILX Covers The Beatles. The deadline for song claiming will be Dec. 1. Tracks will be accepted until Jan. 1, 2013. The release of this compilation is scheduled for Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, which would have been George Harrison’s 70th birthday.
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Here are the rough guidelines:
• Like other ILX comps, send your song as an MP3, WAV or FLAC. If you would rather work out some sort of dropbox deal, let me know in an email. The email address for all correspondence is ilx.beatles.compATgmailºcom.
• Unlike other comps where we claim our songs in this overview thread, let’s keep the songs we’re covering private. That way, when we release the comp, it can be a big surprise. I’ve got grandiose plans of releasing two versions - one in which the tracks are separated and named, and one “LOVE” version, where all tracks are mixed together into one big beautiful monstrosity.
Send me the name of the song you want to do as well as a second and third choice. First come, first served. I'll get back with you on what's been taken/not taken.
And if you let loose with which song you’re going to do, no worries. You’re just not going to get any revelations from me.
• As I said, we’ll start taking dibs on songs beginning on June 1. Let’s do it at 1400 GMT that day. That’s 7 a.m. San Francisco time, 10 a.m. at the Ed Sullivan Theater, 3 p.m. in Liverpool and midnight, June 2, in Sydney. Any claims on songs before then will not be accepted.
• Only songs performed by the Beatles and released originally by the Beatles will be accepted. No Badfinger, no Wings, no Wilburys, no “Besame Mucho”. If the song you want to cover is “Twist & Shout”, that’s fine since it was released on Please Please Me. I would encourage submissions to be written by Lennon, McCartney, Harrison or Starkey, but if the group thought it was a good idea to release their version of “Boys”, then who can I be to say we shouldn’t either.
Even though Anthology was an official release, I’d prefer we stay away from songs such as “All Things Must Pass” or “Teddy Boy” which were released later as a solo effort.
Looking forward to hearing comments. Yeah yeah yeah!
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
dibs on Revolution No. 9
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
what a massively awesome undertaking, pplains!
― how's life, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
cool idea. would like to do it, just have to think of a good song to mangle.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
dibs accepted at ilx.beatles.comp address, silly butt.
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
June 1 is soon enough to get started, but you have until Dec. 1 to pick a song (if you can get it done in a busy month.)
Hahaha, okay, I want in. I will have to think of which shitty song I can DESTROY.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Only reason to be picky about when to start accepting dibs is to be fair to both sides of the Atlantic. I don't want a bunch of Britishes upset at some dumb Arkansas guy for accepting the first claims at 000 GMT.
But that said, the Beatles did land in Arkansas once for refueling. They installed a statue in Walnut Ridge to commemorate the event.
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
This could be incentive to get me playing the guitar again . . .
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp 'Some limey longhairs called The Beetles stopped off here to urinate once'
― banal like a null (snoball), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol I was going to make fun of ppl for not being able to read and then realized I glossed over the start date
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Today was the first time I ever actually bothered to look up that Beatles statue. It kinda bothers me because the band landed up there in 1965 or '66, long before they grew their hair out and started walking across streets.
― pplains, Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
I hate the beatles but it would be tempting to desecrate their carnival music
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's the spirit!
― tylerw, Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
I figure very few of us will be able to beat them, so
― pplains, Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
How about Beatle-composed Anthology songs that released during the Beatles' tenure, but by other artists?
I've long wanted to cover "Step Inside Love"
― Lee971 (Lee626), Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is it really a good idea to be running two ILX comps at once? Can you not wait a bit?
Seems like when ILX does 2 at once, neither happens.
― Dixie Narco Martenot (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 24 May 2012 05:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
ok, I've read the first post now.
― Mark G, Thursday, 24 May 2012 05:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
So firstly, I shall put my claim in June 1st in private, I shall see about getting a mod to edit my first post here.
And also it'll be well away from being run at the same time as the current one, any road up.
― Mark G, Thursday, 24 May 2012 06:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm up for it too. Have ideas of songs and doubt anyone would fight me for it / them.
― Rob M Revisited, Thursday, 24 May 2012 06:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Argh see now I'm going to get the anxiety that everyone else is choosing the song I would want to do.
There's such a narrow range of songs that would even fit me and I imagine it's the off the beaten track songs that will go first.
― Dixie Narco Martenot (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 24 May 2012 06:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can imagine the queue for "get one of those for your trousers" will be longer than the queue for "Hey Jude"
― Mark G, Thursday, 24 May 2012 06:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
I should have put quotes around "off the beaten track."
It's just that there are really only 1 or 2 songs I'd want to do, and I'd be gutted if I lost out to someone who was all just "I h8 the Beatles & their cultural domination so I'm just going to pick this one to wreck it."
Because yeah yeah I hate the cultural domination and critical supremacy of the Beatles but some of their songs are so beautiful, especially when they catch me unaware.
Oh, I am conflicted. I should sit this thread out.
― Dixie Narco Martenot (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 24 May 2012 06:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow, what a cool idea. Yeah, I want to do this. Gonna start thinking about my top three picks! Bravo pplains.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 24 May 2012 07:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
WCC, hopefully the June 1 starting gun at a particular time helps in getting you the song you want. I really don't imagine getting 90 submissions all at once there.
But to be fair to anyone else who would have wanted to do those two songs as well, I think this is fair. At least it's daylight in most of ILX-land.
And I know we've got the Animal Collective comp running now too. Anyone is welcome to forget about this project until that's over. Remember, you've got six months to even claim a song and almost eight months to record it.
― pplains, Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just adding this again since I really should have made it bold in the OP:
In a week, this will be a moot point anyway.
― pplains, Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
glad i have a few months to decide whether there's a beatles original worth doing more than "A Taste Of Honey"
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was thinking this morning how perverse this is gonna get if someone does "Please Mr. Postman".
― pplains, Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Looking forward to hearing this! My housemate is a happy hardcore producer, maybe I can persuade him to contribute (does sampling count?)
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hey yeah, I didn't realise how long the submission period was when I was worried about not being able to finish the other compilation. That's plenty long enough to finish the other one before starting this.
ARGH WHY YOU GOTS TO THROW TIME ZONES INTO IT THO I can never get my head around time zones. We're in British Summer Time now, right? Argh. Pressure.
I think I've found two alternate songs but I just have no way of judging how popular things are among the ILX compilation crowd. Not that I would plan on doing either of these songs, but we seem like the kind of people where several people would fight over Rain but no one would be interested in doing Strawberry Fields.
― Dixie Narco Martenot (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
British summer time - 3 pm, 1 June.
I even put the one in front of "June" for ya.
― pplains, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thanks! Appreciated that :D
― Dixie Narco Martenot (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm in on this. Already looking forward to the LOVE-style megamix.
― H.P. Hovercraft and the Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
so hows this gonna work? you keep receiving submissions until the entire catalog is full or until 1/1/13, which ever comes first?
― billstevejim, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Or is it like, one submission per ILX username?
― billstevejim, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm prolly not gonna do this, but I was just wondering.
Yeah, for now, we're just going to take one submissions per ILX user. No socks.
Beginning June 1, I'll take submissions at ilx.beatles.compatgmaildotcom. (Trying to avoid setting off the email filter here.)
From then until Dec. 1, you can stake your claim on what title you're recording. You have until 1/1/13 to submit the finished track.
I don't know off the top of my head how many Beatles songs we're talking about here. At least 120. If we get anything close to that before 12/1, I'll certainly alert everyone on this thread. I will also likely shit my pants.
So if we clear your submission a week from tomorrow, you record it and get it ready over the weekend, and then send it to me on Monday, June 4, you're good.
If we clear your submission on 11/30 and you have it back to me by 12/31, then again, we're good.
You don't have to claim your song on June 1 and you don't have to wait until 1/1 to send it in. The only incentive to get in your stakes early is to take advantage of the "first-come, first-serve" procedure here.
I'm going to add a track to this, but I'm going to wait until the last minute, so I don't claim a song over anyone else.
― pplains, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
I would love to hear multiple versions of the same song, myself.
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
no medleys or intra-beatles mashups allowed then? like elanor rigby lyrics over daytripper riff?
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
If multiples exist, they must be performed in different keys. You know, to keep it interesting for the listener. Get those capos warmed up.
― andrew m., Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
I agree that multiple versions would sound cool, but I'm more interested in covering a lot of ground, seeing what songs get taken first, and how it's going to sound when it's put all together. You really want to hear six versions of "Helter Skelter" in that Love mix?
But that said, if someone wants to go all Beatallica and throw in a few riffs from other songs into their mix, that's cool. Lord knows the Beatles themselves pulled that trick a couple of times. Just as long as it's under the umbrella of one song title.
So yeah. No one gets to claim Stars on 45.
― pplains, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'll do this, have no idea what song
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ooh, i wanna do "Wild Honey Pie"!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh, crap, sorry guys. Just jumped to the bottom w/o reading.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
I have a Beatles cover I made 20 years ago, one of the few surviving tapes I have from that long ago, that I just listened to for the first time in eons. I recalled it being a rather dull, straightforward cover. I forgot it featured a cheap vintage keyboard simulating a guitar and a Roland 808 in lieu of Ringo. Would you all rather have this or a newly made recording?
― Lee971 (Lee626), Saturday, 26 May 2012 05:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
I could get into this. See if I can recruit my gf for vox....
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 26 May 2012 14:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
As long as no one claims the song first and you're the one who made the recording, the cover can be 100 years old for all that it matters.
― pplains, Saturday, 26 May 2012 15:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yeah dude go for the vintage recording!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 26 May 2012 15:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
I'm in I'm in I'm in, I need to record this summer
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Saturday, 26 May 2012 15:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
I really should have remastered mine once the extension was announced. It's too quiet.
― :C (crüt), Monday, 25 February 2013 16:23 (3 months ago) Permalink
Loving these so far. Paul MarioKartney is brilliant, "Her Majesty" took an amazing left turn, a da croupier's made me a little frightened (in a good way).
(and thanks, tylerw & n/a!)
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 25 February 2013 16:30 (3 months ago) Permalink
This whole thing is so great.
― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Monday, 25 February 2013 16:35 (3 months ago) Permalink
Tarfumes! <3 <3 Drumming is amaaaaazing
― shouting in a bucket blues (MaresNest), Monday, 25 February 2013 16:36 (3 months ago) Permalink
heyy, if your track is under another name than your posting name, can you let everyone know who you are? maybe that's upthread, not sure. i'm forces at work, i know scare quotes is n/a ...and yeah, i've found that my only idea when it comes to covering a song is: "what would galaxie 500 sound like if they played this song."
― tylerw, Monday, 25 February 2013 16:38 (3 months ago) Permalink
weinventyou here on the internet
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Monday, 25 February 2013 16:41 (3 months ago) Permalink
ah yes, i knew that one too -- that "long long long" is quite lovely.
― tylerw, Monday, 25 February 2013 16:42 (3 months ago) Permalink
I am Pete Worst.
― :C (crüt), Monday, 25 February 2013 16:43 (3 months ago) Permalink
i figured that was you, crutis. great work as usual.
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oh, you were forces at work! i liked that one a lot, it has a nice after the goldrush/recording in a smoky room in the basement kind of feel, in the best possible way.
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Monday, 25 February 2013 16:47 (3 months ago) Permalink
It's funny it nearly all turned out so mellow. I'm glad I didn't the chance to do the miami bass wywy I had planned.
Long Long Long and Good Night are my favourites, I think.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 25 February 2013 16:58 (3 months ago) Permalink
I was tickled with how deconstructive the content was. Most of these don't even really sound like Beatle songs.
Put this in another board's hands and every song would've sounded like The Rutles.
― pplains, Monday, 25 February 2013 17:05 (3 months ago) Permalink
I told ZS in an email that he should've tagged his Long Long Long with eight minutes of a Blue Nun bottle spinning around.
crut haack
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:14 (3 months ago) Permalink
whole thing is a good mix of irreverent goofs and inspired bliss outs.
― tylerw, Monday, 25 February 2013 17:14 (3 months ago) Permalink
holy shit tarfumes
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:20 (3 months ago) Permalink
^^this
― less Shin, more Stubbs (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:26 (3 months ago) Permalink
ZS's "Long Long Long" is a great aural companion piece to his gif creation over the years.
I hate to ID favorites because they're all inspired, but had "holy shit awesome" moments at Strawberry Fields, Long Long Long and of course WYWY.
― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:30 (3 months ago) Permalink
Spreading the word and loving the results!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 February 2013 17:58 (3 months ago) Permalink
Thanks for the cat-herding and beauteous tracks, all. Wish mine measured up.
― Matt M., Monday, 25 February 2013 18:05 (3 months ago) Permalink
Just noticed, it's in 'chronological' order, innit?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 06:57 (2 months ago) Permalink
And beautifully sequenced. Well done all!
lol
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 07:14 (2 months ago) Permalink
haven't listened to everything yet but so far it's great and fun.after enjoying the name, loving the Paul MarioCartney's track !also the gary glitter'd one !
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 10:43 (2 months ago) Permalink
I was real tempted to sequence it in order of appearance on their respective albums -- have WYWY start "side 2", hide "Her Majesty" as an untitled track.
But with both Tomorrow Never Knows and Good Night on there, I got thrown off that idea and just went in order of release. Still came out pretty cool. We can thank serendipity for that one.
― pplains, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 15:11 (2 months ago) Permalink
Thanks, serendipity. Which one is his track?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 09:46 (2 months ago) Permalink
It's in the lead-out groove, you kinda have to look for it.
― pplains, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 10:02 (2 months ago) Permalink
available
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 February 2013 13:40 (2 months ago) Permalink
Shoutin' out thanks to BROWNIE for the recognizable-as-a-Beatles-tune portion of my track.
― less Shin, more Stubbs (weatheringdaleson), Thursday, 28 February 2013 18:59 (2 months ago) Permalink
OUR BROWNIE? had no idea!
― pplains, Thursday, 28 February 2013 19:05 (2 months ago) Permalink
"I'd like to thank my producer..."
― less Shin, more Stubbs (weatheringdaleson), Thursday, 28 February 2013 19:15 (2 months ago) Permalink
It's funny how nobody, other than the peerless Paul MarioCartney, took on a really big track. Three from the Blue Album, nothing from the Red Album. Only one single.
I know this is ILM, but if you released the originals it'd make for a pretty obscure Beatles comp for a lot of people.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 1 March 2013 16:54 (2 months ago) Permalink
Pretty much the same thing for the songs that were claimed, but due to a variety of legitimate reasons, weren't submitted:
She's A WomanYes It IsHoney PieAnd Your Bird Can SingEleanor RigbyCry For A ShadowI Want You (She's So Heavy)You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)Only A Northern SongMartha My DearBirthdayYou Like Me Too MuchOh DarlingYou've Got to Hide Your Love AwayIt's All Too Much
― pplains, Friday, 1 March 2013 16:57 (2 months ago) Permalink
Ilooking forward to volume II
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:15 (2 months ago) Permalink
I don't even KNOW "cry for a shadow" !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:27 (2 months ago) Permalink
that's like that super early instrumental, right?
― tylerw, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:37 (2 months ago) Permalink
i thought about and your bird can sing, but decided it would be too hard. probably would've come out sounding exactly like my tomorrow never knows.
― tylerw, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:38 (2 months ago) Permalink
"and your bird" with a chamber orchestra playing it brandenburger concerto style could be neat !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:41 (2 months ago) Permalink
geir would hate this lol
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:58 (2 months ago) Permalink
a chamber orchestra feat. a funky rythm section.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 1 March 2013 18:01 (2 months ago) Permalink
Yep, I think it's part of the Tony Sheridan sessions. It's the only song credited to Lennon/Harrison.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 1 March 2013 18:04 (2 months ago) Permalink
I feel really bad about not submitting my youve got to hide your love away because it would've come out sounding like work that motherfucker
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 1 March 2013 18:07 (2 months ago) Permalink
Ilooking forward to volume II― Ismael Klata, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:15 (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:15 (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes.
Unfortunately, Kevin Shields is mixing them../..
― Mark G, Monday, 4 March 2013 10:56 (2 months ago) Permalink
a 8min cover of "wild honey pie" by kevin shields produced by daft punk is my new dream !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 4 March 2013 12:42 (2 months ago) Permalink
paul mariocartney is still making me lol. amazing.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 17:35 (2 months ago) Permalink
haha, me too. It cries out for a game to be made for it.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 17:47 (2 months ago) Permalink
I was a stickler for the whole calling your song and then submitting it, just because I knew any other way, I would get way too disorganized and probably leave off somebody (like I did in my Husker Du poll.)
But that said, when this showed up in my inbox unannounced, I really had no choice but to accept it on the spot, now did I?
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 19:06 (2 months ago) Permalink
Our Alice loved that one.
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 March 2013 12:26 (2 months ago) Permalink
yeah, mariocartney is the best thing on this.love when the track accelerates !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 7 March 2013 13:49 (2 months ago) Permalink
Whoever's responsible for the Paul Mariocartney track: thank you.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 17 March 2013 21:04 (2 months ago) Permalink
hon men's: "you won't see me", "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "Baby you're a rich man"
― Mark G, Sunday, 17 March 2013 21:15 (2 months ago) Permalink
Good Night is my favourite though. For all that it stays close to the original, it's prettier. I love the primitive-sounding orchestration, it sets it off so well.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:56 (2 months ago) Permalink